Meta Knight details. (I pretty much went all Meta Knight)
As Gimpy stated, Meta Knight seems to be noob friendly. This is because he has attacks that come out very quickly, multi-hit, and has amazing recovery. But he does have "glaringly obvious" drawbacks (Gimpy, please edit that out of your post).
The main one is that he has Kirby's KOing power, as in none. When you smash someone, they will not die until 150% or more... and that's with his most powerful smash (probably F-smash). His U-smash is a very quick, triple hit which - while being great for building damage - is easily DI'd out of so the third and strongest hit won't land (and the third hit really doesn't KO anyway). The D-smash seems weakest of the three, which is really saying something.
Also, he has some really good moves, but some really poor moves (from what I know of them anyway). His Down+B is a short, laggy teleport... but it does look cool at least. His Up-B is amazing for recovery, especially because you can jump/glide after using it, but as an attack it's hard to hit with and doesn't do much damage at all. His Neutral+B is a tornado that doesn't seem to do much at all, though people were trying to convince me that it was broken for some reason. The "Triple Dash" (Side+B) was easily his best special attack, just because it comes out fairly quickly and can do so many hits that it usually does 20% - 40% damage (usually 30% when I used it).
Meta's throws are exactly like Kirby's, but they have different knockback and stuff due to the "floatiness" of this game. Up-Throw is like Kirby's Ninja Throw, but I found it really easy to combo out of (compared to Melee Kirby of course). The D-throw is like Kirby's Victory Dance, but they land a little bit different which probably doesn't matter for those of you that don't play Kirby. F-throw and B-throw don't Kirbycide, he just tosses them back or forward, I guess like Jiggly.
His taunts are awesome... except Side-Taunt, where he just holds out his sword. Up-Taunt: he disappears into his cape and reappears quickly. Down-Taunt he spreads his wings really wide, then closes and opens them again (this last open-close makes the taunt feel a little laggy).
His tilts are awesome, the side-tilt can combo into three hits, his d-tilt is like Kirby's but with more knockback (so in otherwords, like Marth's), and his U-tilt is rather narrow but is still a viable launcher (stabs up with his sword).
His aerials are like Kirby's, but using his sword instead of feet. For instance, instead of Kirby's triple kick F-air, he does a triple sword swipe. His neutral-air is like Kirby's Twinkle Star, but far less cute and easily more priority. Up-air is a quick swipe up, like Kirby's Up-air kick, but much weaker, vertical knockback, and more frames of hitboxes (Kirby's only lasts 3 frames, bleh). His back air seems to be worse than Kirby's, but I'll test it out more... Meta seemed to be more of a forward-facing character. His d-air is nothing like Kirby's however, it's a quick swipe down and it does indeed spike (probably meteor cancelable), but it felt very weak and definately doesn't have Kirby's multiple hit advantage.
His jab is just like Kirby's Vulcan Jab (the best multi-jab in the game IMO), but it feels like an automatic multi-hit. His dash attack is just a dashing kick, but it's a launcher so you can combo out of it.
As Gimpy stated, Meta Knight seems to be noob friendly. This is because he has attacks that come out very quickly, multi-hit, and has amazing recovery. But he does have "glaringly obvious" drawbacks (Gimpy, please edit that out of your post).
The main one is that he has Kirby's KOing power, as in none. When you smash someone, they will not die until 150% or more... and that's with his most powerful smash (probably F-smash). His U-smash is a very quick, triple hit which - while being great for building damage - is easily DI'd out of so the third and strongest hit won't land (and the third hit really doesn't KO anyway). The D-smash seems weakest of the three, which is really saying something.
Also, he has some really good moves, but some really poor moves (from what I know of them anyway). His Down+B is a short, laggy teleport... but it does look cool at least. His Up-B is amazing for recovery, especially because you can jump/glide after using it, but as an attack it's hard to hit with and doesn't do much damage at all. His Neutral+B is a tornado that doesn't seem to do much at all, though people were trying to convince me that it was broken for some reason. The "Triple Dash" (Side+B) was easily his best special attack, just because it comes out fairly quickly and can do so many hits that it usually does 20% - 40% damage (usually 30% when I used it).
Meta's throws are exactly like Kirby's, but they have different knockback and stuff due to the "floatiness" of this game. Up-Throw is like Kirby's Ninja Throw, but I found it really easy to combo out of (compared to Melee Kirby of course). The D-throw is like Kirby's Victory Dance, but they land a little bit different which probably doesn't matter for those of you that don't play Kirby. F-throw and B-throw don't Kirbycide, he just tosses them back or forward, I guess like Jiggly.
His taunts are awesome... except Side-Taunt, where he just holds out his sword. Up-Taunt: he disappears into his cape and reappears quickly. Down-Taunt he spreads his wings really wide, then closes and opens them again (this last open-close makes the taunt feel a little laggy).
His tilts are awesome, the side-tilt can combo into three hits, his d-tilt is like Kirby's but with more knockback (so in otherwords, like Marth's), and his U-tilt is rather narrow but is still a viable launcher (stabs up with his sword).
His aerials are like Kirby's, but using his sword instead of feet. For instance, instead of Kirby's triple kick F-air, he does a triple sword swipe. His neutral-air is like Kirby's Twinkle Star, but far less cute and easily more priority. Up-air is a quick swipe up, like Kirby's Up-air kick, but much weaker, vertical knockback, and more frames of hitboxes (Kirby's only lasts 3 frames, bleh). His back air seems to be worse than Kirby's, but I'll test it out more... Meta seemed to be more of a forward-facing character. His d-air is nothing like Kirby's however, it's a quick swipe down and it does indeed spike (probably meteor cancelable), but it felt very weak and definately doesn't have Kirby's multiple hit advantage.
His jab is just like Kirby's Vulcan Jab (the best multi-jab in the game IMO), but it feels like an automatic multi-hit. His dash attack is just a dashing kick, but it's a launcher so you can combo out of it.
